Dan Colley
Playwright & Director
A theatre and film maker with a particular focus on devised ensemble work, adaptation and theatre for young audiences. Dan's creative practice involves long periods of research and development with key collaborators from an early stage. Dan is interested in the slipperiness of realities and form. His play Lost Lear won the Scotsman Fringe First award at Edinburgh 2025, where it was presented at Traverse Theatre. Premiering at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022, it has since toured to the US, UK and New Zealand and has been described as "an astonishing piece of theatre". His adaptation of A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez premiered in 2019 and was nominated for two Irish Times Theatre Awards and four Dublin Fringe Awards. It has since had over 200 performances and been presented in New York, London's Unicorn Theatre, Scotland's Imaginate Festival and the Sydney Opera House.